Toms River South atop Baseball Top 20 that swings like a revolving door

If you run into someone during this week who professes to have a tight grasp on the Top 20 baseball teams in the state of New Jersey, call them phony, foolish and full of baloney.

In fact, the only way to get a good hold of what's going on in the baseball world to this point is to print out the Top 20, cut it up into 20 pieces, crumble up those little pieces of paper into a ball and squeeze tightly.

Otherwise, you're fooling yourself and making the rest of us laugh.

That is not to say I'm not trying to pull this all together into a tightly knit, sensible alignment of the good, bad and ugly. Well, maybe that says I'm nuttier than all of you.

We lost seven teams from last week's poll and that's not me telling you they didn't make the cut. We actually lost them. We can't find them. Don't remember how to spell them. They don't turn up on our GPS.

Hunterdon Central was No. 5 last week. Sorry, can't find them here. St. Joseph of Montvale was ignored a week ago. They're back in good standing at No. 12. Hackensack did its first fly-by in about 15 years and was sent sailing again.

Washington Township was knocked out and replaced by Cherokee in the Top 20, then defeated Cherokee today. Does anyone have an Etch-A-Sketch? That's what I plan to use to do the Top 20 next week.

Batman called and I asked his opinion of the 20 and he said, "Holy Guadalcanal!"

Howell, Indian Hills and Ocean Township entered the Top 20 for the first time since gas went to a dollar a gallon. Randolph is back in the fold, like a long lost friend who just showed up with Yankees tickets.

We do believe, though, the Top 20 will firm up soon enough that we'll be able to hang our windbreakers on it. I swear. Take a ticket and wait at the door.